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Securing Outer Space

Securing Outer Space

Bormann, Natalie
Sheehan, Michael

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Critical Security Studies

Technology & EngineeringGeneral Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0415460565
ISBN13: 9780415460569
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 30 2009
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

The challenges that space poses for political theory are profound. Yet until now, the exploration and utilization of space has generally reflected - but not challenged - the political patterns and impulses which characterized twentieth-century politics and International Relations. This edited volume analyses a number of controversial policies, and contentious strategies which have promoted space activities under the rubric of exploration and innovation, militarization and weaponization, colonization and commercialization. It places these policies and strategies in broader theoretical perspective in two key ways. Firstly, it engages in a reading of the discourses of space activities: exposing their meaning-producing practices; uncovering the narratives which convey certain space strategies as desirable, inevitable and seamless. Secondly, the essays suggest ways of understanding, and critically engaging with, the effects of particular space policies.

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